Combined WWI / WWII memorial cross - St Peter - Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
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N 52° 57.132 W 001° 08.914
30U E 624381 N 5868557
Combined WWI / WWII memorial sculpture of St George & dragon in St Peter's church, Nottingham.
Waymark Code: WMX2G8
Location: East Midlands, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 11/17/2017
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member Norfolk12
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A stone base with an alabaster tablet below an alabaster statue of St George (on foot) and the Dragon. It is surmounted by a high spire-like canopy of gilded oak. The architect, F E Howard, of Oxford, commissioned Alec Miller to design and carve the statue. The memorial was dedicated June 25th 1922.

Names on memorial (1914 - 1918)

Thomas Attenborough Arthur Holderness John Simmons
Thomas Bray John Hornibrook Edward Simpson
Charles Brett Charles W. Jenkins Percy Smith
Albert Chapman Henry G. Leeson Ernest F. Snow
William Cockayne Olonzo F. Mantle John E. Snow
Joseph Connelly Edward Marriott Joseph Taylor
Herbert V. Cooper George W. Marshall    Albert E.V. Tyers
Thomas N. Dalley William Murden Ernest Waldram
Annie Freeman Ernest Pape Ronald Wallis
Ernest Gay Herbert Parkes Thomas B. Widdowson
John W. Godrich Percy Parkes Frederick A. Wood
Reginald A. Grundy Arthur Parkins William H. Wright
Arthur P. Hatfield C.F.    Stanley R. Robinson  
Walter Hemsley Albert Scothern  

Two names, Roy Harley and Frank A. Woodward, were added after 1945.

At the base is the inscription:

In thanksgiving to God for deliverance
and in memory of those of this parish and
congregation who laid down their lives
1914-1918                   1939-1945

Date the Monument or Memorial was built or dedicated: 06/25/1922

Private or Public Monument?: Private

Name of the Private Organization or Government Entity that built this Monument: Not known

Geographic Region where the Monument is located: Europe

Website for this Monument: [Web Link]

Physical Address of Monument:
St Peter
St Peter's Gate
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire England
NG1 1HR


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